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  1. www.sparknotes.com › shakespeare › romeojulietRomeo and Juliet: Full Play Analysis - SparkNotes

    Romeo and Juliet is a play about the conflict between the main characters’ love, with its transformative power, and the darkness, hatred, and selfishness represented by their families’ feud. The two teenaged lovers, Romeo and Juliet, fall in love the first time they see each other, but their families’ feud requires they remain enemies.

  2. www.sparknotes.com › shakespeare › romeojulietJuliet Character Analysis in Romeo and Juliet - SparkNotes

    William Shakespeare. Romeo and JulietJuliet Character Analysis. Having not quite reached her fourteenth birthday, Juliet is of an age that stands on the border between immaturity and maturity. At the play’s beginning, however, she seems merely an obedient, sheltered, naïve child. Though many girls her age—including her mother—get married ...

  3. www.bbc.co.uk › bitesize › guidesThemes in Romeo and Juliet Love in Romeo and Juliet - BBC

    When Romeo and Juliet first meet, they instantly fall in love. Shakespeare presents their initial meeting as passionate, flirtatious and true. "To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss ...

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  5. www.bbc.co.uk › bitesize › articlesShakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet plot summary - Romeo and ...

    The main characters in Romeo and Juliet are Romeo, Juliet, Friar Lawrence and the Nurse. Romeo, a member of the Montague family, falls in love with Juliet, a member of the Capulet family. The ...

  6. shakespeare-navigators.ewu.edu › romeo › LoveRomeo and Juliet Navigator: Themes: Love

    Themes and Motifs in Romeo and Juliet: Love. In the first scene of the play, Benvolio asks Romeo what's wrong with him, and Romeo says he is "Out of her favor, where I am in love" (1.1.168). In this case, "her" is Rosaline. Then follows a long discussion of love, during which we find that Romeo is in love just exactly as the culture of the day ...

  7. interestingliterature.com › 2020 › 06A Summary and Analysis of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

    Jun 4, 2020 · Romeo goes to see a churchman, Friar Laurence, who agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet. After the wedding, the feud between the two families becomes violent again: Tybalt kills Mercutio in a fight, and Romeo kills Tybalt in retaliation. The Prince banishes Romeo from Verona for his crime. Juliet is told by her father that she will marry Paris, so ...

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  9. www.bbc.co.uk › bitesize › articlesShakespeare - Romeo and Juliet - plot summary - BBC Bitesize

    A fight breaks out between Capulet and Montague servants. Paris asks for Juliet’s hand in marriage. Romeo and Juliet fall in love and get married in secret. Tybalt starts a street fight and ...